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COUPLE EARNS ARTS ACCOLADE BLANCETTS' SUPPORT LAUDED.


Byline: Daily News

LANCASTER - Local arts supporters John and Barbara Blancett are the third recipients of the Arts Achievement Award, presented by the Lancaster Performing Arts Center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre.  Foundation at a reception May 28.

The lifetime achievement award was created to recognize individuals and businesses who have made significant contributions to the development and continuance of performing arts in the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming.

The Antelope Valley
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John was a board member of the area's first arts council An arts council is a government or private, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the arts mainly by funding local artists, awarding prizes, and organizing events at home and abroad.  for several years. Barbara has served as the executive secretary for community concerts since 1993. Together they were key supporters in the creation of the Lancaster Performing Arts Center and have volunteered at the facility since its doors opened in 1991.

They are members of the Friends of the Lancaster Performing Arts Center Foundation. Their names grace the center's donor wall as members of the silver circle, and they are LPAC 1. (audio, compression) LPAC - Lossless Predictive Audio Compression.
2. LPAC - London Parallel Applications Centre.
 seat sponsors.

They have also donated financially to the Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery.

The Blancetts continue to volunteer at the arts center, ushering Arts for Youth daytime performances and season events, as well as rental performances and other events such as the California Poppy California poppy: see poppy.
California poppy

Annual garden plant (Eschscholzia californica) in the poppy family, native to the western coast of North America and naturalized in parts of southern Europe, Asia, and Australia.
 Festival and Antelope Valley Fair.

The couple also supports local performing groups throughout the valley, including Cedar Street Theatre, Antelope Valley Symphony and Master Chorale chorale (kōrăl`, –räl`), any of the traditional hymns of the German Protestant Church. The form was developed after the Reformation to replace the plainsong of the earlier service and as a means of congregational participation in  and Palmdale Repertory Theatre as season ticket holders.

Betty Lou Nash and Cedar Street Theatre are previous recipients of the award.
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